Arms Control Today

Congress dealt a setback to Bush administration nuclear plans in November, cutting funds from an end-of-session bill that would have allowed the Department of Energy to explore new and modified types of nuclear weapons.The $388 billion omnibus appropriations...

Ukraine has begun discussing how it might spend funds that it now expects to receive from backers of a multinational effort to support threat reduction projects addressing nonproliferation, disarmament, counterterrorism, and nuclear safety threats in...

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei issued a report Nov. 11 describing South Korea's failure to notify the agency of past research that could have potentially aided a nuclear weapons program. The report, however,...

Following a series of talks with British, French, and German officials, Iran notified the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Nov. 14 that it would suspend all of its uranium-enrichment activities for the duration of upcoming negotiations concerning...

Despite deployment of the first contingent of long-range ballistic missile interceptors in Alaska two months ago, the Bush administration has yet to declare its limited missile defense system ready for action. Various military commands that will have...

Four years ago, Congress called on the president to reassess the military requirements for nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War era. Yet, rather than reduce U.S. reliance on nuclear weapons, President George W. Bush launched a costly and counterproductive...

Iran's possible development of nuclear weapons has now come front and center in U.S. foreign policy, as well as in consideration overall of preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction. It has assumed particular importance because of its potential...

In U.S. politics, some issues are so controversial that they are known as "third rails"-touching them risks political electrocution. Social Security, for example, has often been likened to the third rail of U.S. domestic politics. In the nuclear security...

If a recent month-long UN disarmament meeting is a signpost for where key nuclear arms control talks are headed next year, a dead end might be around the corner.From Oct. 4 to Nov. 5, UN members discussed, disputed, and voted on a smorgasbord of nonbinding...

Roughly one-third of UN members have complied with a unanimous Security Council resolution request to detail their efforts to prevent nonstate actors from acquiring or developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD), disappointing the United States, the...

An Interview With Ambassador Sérgio de Queiroz Duarte, President of the 2005 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review ConferenceThe nearly 190 states-parties to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) will gather next May for four weeks to take stock...